Statista are Gold Sponsors of the first SLA Europe 2019 Konferencia. John Z., Co-Chair of the SLA Europe Conference Planning Committee took time out to interview Jonathan Rooney Group Director, Professional Services and Sport and find out more about the company and its services.

JC: Po prvé, thank you for supporting our 2019 European Conference. As not all our members will be familiar with your company please tell us a little bit about it.

JR: I’d be happy to. Statista was founded in Hamburg, Germany in 2007 by Dr Friedrich Schwandt and Tim Kröger who were working together at Boston Consultancy Group at the time. We are now one of the leading online market research portals worldwide. S viac než 1,500,000 registered users and 8.5 million unique visitors per month.

JC: Do you operate solely in the UK?

JR: Nie, we are a global company. Statista is still headquartered in Hamburg and operates branches in New York, Londýn, Paris and Singapore with over 600 employees.

JC: Can you tell us a bit more about the content?

JR: The platform offers research on all industries from a combination of primary research and aggregated data from more than 22,500 open or premium partner sources. Research comes in the form of statistics & forecasts that are available to download as PPT, XCL, PNG or PDF files. Naviac, we offer market reports and dossiers.

JC: Are there any additional services?

JR: Áno, we also produce the Statista Global Consumer Survey every 6 mesiacov, which offers cross sector consumer perceptions on industries and brands across more than 40 krajiny. The interactive survey allows customer perceptions to be broken down by multiple demographics or target groups and can be compared to historical surveys and across multiple counties. Statista also offers its own research and analysis service as well as an in-house infographics marketing department.

JC: Who uses your services?

JR: Our user base is diverse and, in many ways, reflect that of SLA Members. A good reason for us being visible at your conference! With high-quality content prepared according to scientific standards, Statista provides business customers, Výskumníci, private users and the academic community with direct access to reliable, relevant quantitative facts and statistics.

JC: I’m sure this will be of interest both to conference attendees and SLA Europe members not able to come. Tell us about accessing the content.

JR: Anybody can sign up for free to look at www.statista.com. We offer an all-in subscription to the website for customers in any walk of life. Web based subscription means users can access Statista through a browser from any location and using any device. Subscriptions range from individual users, campus-wide agreements to whole global multinational corporations

JC: Konečne, if attendees want to find out more?

JR: Statista will have a presence at the conference and we would encourage attendees to visit our space and find out more. For those unable to attend the conference please contact us via www.Statista.com or me directly on jonathathan.rooney@statista.com .

OpenAthens develops and supports identity and access management software and allows millions of people to quickly and easily find the information they’re looking for. But how do we achieve this? Dobre, we have made single sign-on simple by doing all the heavy lifting ourselves, making seamless access to knowledge easier than ever before.

We help more than 2,600 organisations in over 50 countries have access to the knowledge they want when they want it. These organisations include universities, healthcare, pharmaceutical, engineering and research. Our aim is to unite these organisations with content providers and create a seamless end-user journey for those accessing password protected e-resources across all platforms.

The requirements and set up journey for each of our customers is different, so the best course of action for finding out how OpenAthens can help you is getting in touch with us via contact@openathens.net, where our team will help you with exactly what you need to get started. Alternatively, find out more on our website at openathens.org.

A message from the other conference sponsor, Statista, will follow shortly. Full details of the conference programme can be found tu.

]]>http://www.sla-europe.org/2019/08/23/sla-europe-conference-2019-a-message-from-our-sponsors-1/feed/?lang=sk09676SLA Europe Conference 2019: just a few more days to registerhttp://www.sla-europe.org/2019/08/20/sla-europe-conference-2019-just-a-few-more-days-to-register/?lang=sk
http://www.sla-europe.org/2019/08/20/sla-europe-conference-2019-just-a-few-more-days-to-register/?lang=sk#respondMôj, 19 Aug 2019 23:41:49 +0000http://www.sla-europe.org/?p=9672-skSLA Europe Conference 2019: just a few more days to register

SLA Európy inaugural conference is now just round the corner. It takes place in the glorious surroundings of Newnham College, in Cambridge, o 5-6 September, and there are just a few days left to register: no later than 21 August for participants who wish to take advantage of overnight accommodation at the College; and by 25 August for those who are attending for only one day, or who are booking accommodation elsewhere.

We are proposing a full and exciting programme (details tu), with no fewer than two keynotes, 15 prezentácie, a couple of workshop sessions, along with ample opportunity to engage in discussions, to network and to socialise.&nbsp; The conference will address a wide selection of themes of interest to information professionals: digital archiving, librarianship in the age of the gig economy, Competitive Intelligence, AI in the context of libraries… and many others. And our presenters will represent a diverse range of contexts, in news media, consultancy, think tanks, local government and data centres, to name a few.

This will be a real showcase of the diversity – and perhaps even the unsuspected diversity – that characterises information professions. An opportunity not to be missed, but now with less than a week to sign up to. A tak, please don’t hesitate to register tu!

OpenAthens&nbsp;makes accessing knowledge through a single sign-on simple. It means people can quickly and easily find the information they’re looking for. This leads to more time, smarter ways of working and unlocks the potential to achieve great things! Viac, with stats on usage, libraries can optimise the way they work. More information will be available at the Conference or by visiting their website&nbsp;https://www.openathens.net/

Statista operates one of the leading statistics portals worldwide. Via the website www.statista.com, Statista provides access to statistics on more than 80,000 topics from 170 different industries and therefore is a unique resource on the web about numbers, dates and statistics. Aggregated from over 22,500 sources, the platform provides direct access to more than 1,000,000 statistics.

Places are still available to take part in the conference, o 5-6 September, at Newnham College, Cambridge. You can register tu, and the full conference programme is available tu.

]]>9637ECCA winner Catherine Jenkins reflects on SLA Annual Conference 2019http://www.sla-europe.org/2019/07/30/ecca-winner-catherine-jenkins-reflects-on-sla-annual-conference-2019/?lang=sk
Ut., 30 Jul 2019 08:04:20 +0000http://www.sla-europe.org/?p=9580-skI was fortunate to gain an insight into developments in information services across the pond through an Early Career Conference Award sponsored by the SLA Europe chapter and the Legal Division. This award enabled me to travel to the SLA Annual Conference 2019 in Cleveland, Ohio in June.

On
arrival in Cleveland, my first stop was of course the fantastic Cleveland
Public Library (CPL) on Superior Avenue – and its Reading Garden! Throughout
the conference, I was impressed by how many of the events encouraged us to
appreciate the local region that was hosting us. I spent my first few dollars on
a Friends of CPL t-shirt from the library gift shop, emblazoned with ‘The
People’s University’ across the front – which is what every public library
really is.

I
am passionate about open access and information literacy, so I was particularly
interested to find that CPL offers public information drop-in sessions similar
to those I currently run in partnership with the public in the London borough
of Redbridge. They also had an intriguing exhibition focused on CPL staff past
and present when I went, with a library staff cookbook of recipes compiled from
literature, theatre bills from shows performed by The Library Players, and
documentation from the Ohio Center for the Book all on display.

Keen
to find out more about the locality, I attended an eye-opening session on
environmental justice in Cleveland, which discussed the role of libraries in
educating their patrons on race as a variable in locations of toxic waste
sites. The convenors signposted attendees to legal resources to equip and
empower communities around civic engagement on this issue. Recommended reading
included executive orders, federal statutes, predpisy, state laws, tribal
laws, government memos and investigative journalism (specifically Marianne
Lavelle’s ground-breaking piece ‘Unequal Protection: The Racial Divide in
Environmental Law’ for The National Law Journal, excerpted tu).

The
event ‘Social Justice in Cleveland: The Urban Economy’ – the inaugural session
in a proposed social justice series for future conferences – also provided food
for thought, particularly around the following questions:

Do you use your skills as an information professional in the service of social justice?

What social justice issues are particularly pertinent to our profession?

What social justice issues should SLA be concerned about?

The
social justice theme carried through to the keynotes, with Safiya Umoja Noble’s
address providing an inspirational call-to-arms for critical librarianship and
the interrogation of curatorial and algorithmic logics. Her book is now top of
my reading list, and there’s an excellent discussion of it from the Goodreads
‘Open As In Book’ discussion group earlier this year in a Google Doc tu.

The
conference was excellent in its coverage of knowledge management within legal
organisations. ‘Demystifying the Complexities of KM and Librarianship in a
High-Tech Environment’, featuring panelists from companies like Facebook and
Springer Nature, imparted good advice and shared best business practices that
could be adapted to less sizable settings; and ‘The Secret Sauce: Where You’re
Probably NOT Looking to Find Your Client Intelligence’ – chaired by one of my
(two!) very kind mentors, Amy Noll – had me wishing I’d learnt shorthand so
that I could get down all the pearls of wisdom into my notebook. Defining
‘secret sauce’ as ‘distinctive’ – like the Heinz 52 varieties, for this Brit! –
the panel advocated talking to people as a key ingredient, beyond technical
hacks like reverse image search and mining LinkedIn. Human intelligence
gathering can help promote a proactive culture, enrich relationships (podľa, for
example, the inclusion of icebreaker or personalised conversation starters in
lawyers’ briefing notes), and build bridges (with the library as the link).
From onboarding through to tapping into the legal librarians network, situating
the library as the nexus and silo-breaker was demonstrated to be the ‘secret
recipe’ behind supporting people to develop their own taste as independent
information gatherers.

As
with most conferences, much learning took place in-between the breakfast
meetings and formal sessions. The evening receptions and INFO-EXPO not only
provided (very delicious) foodstuffs: they were also opportunities for me to
practise networking and making connections (aided by my conference ribbons –
something that I think we need to start adding to delegate badges at UK conferences,
príliš!). I met and talked with so many people, both in-person and on the Twitter
backchannels when I was live-Tweeting (@CathLynneJ), and it was a pleasure and
a privilege to share experiences and tips. As a first-timer, I was also
incredibly lucky to have my business card picked out by SLA veteran Tony
Stankus, leading to an invitation for me and other SLAers to join him over
dinner. The culinary treats on offer, combined with conversation ranging from
journal publishing models to Brexit, combined to make this the best dinner I’ve
ever had, and I hope to stay in touch with everyone who was around the table
that night.

One
of the last parallel sessions I attended – and there were so many to choose
from, so I’ve also been enjoying poring over the slides of others! – was a
highlight for me (with the honourable exception of the IT Dance Party).
‘Librarians: The Key to Powerful Systematic Reviews’ summarised the outcomes of
a project partnering librarians with research teams to support the systematic review
process, and considered how a systematic review service might be incorporated
into disciplines outside of the health sciences. Qualitative feedback from the
pilot was positive and optimistic for library teams seeking to offer systematic
review partnerships as a service. Comments from researchers included ‘Once you
get hooked on having a librarian in the research team, you stick with it!", and
my absolute favourite – and a good one to end on – ‘Librarians: Don’t leave
home without one!’ The conference certainly convinced me of the truth of this
statement: if I weren’t training to be one myself, I would certainly want to
take a librarian with me everywhere, too.

I am so grateful to SLA Europe and the Legal Division for giving me this opportunity, and I am looking forward to getting involved in the organisation’s other events going forward.

It was a beautiful Thursday evening in summer as I made my way down to the&nbsp;Samuel Pepys, a pub on the banks of the Thames where SLA Europe were throwing their annual summer drinks party, very kindly sponsored by&nbsp;CB Resourcing. We had the whole back room to ourselves, plus an outdoor balcony with a beautiful river view, and the party was in full swing when I arrived; before I had even had a chance to choose from the excellent selection of drinks, the room was packed and bustling with happy SLA members in a hubbub of conversation. Glasses were filled and the tables were groaning with enticing food, with the pizza in particular seeming to cause quite the stir; it looked like we wouldn’t need to dig up Samuel Pepys’ buried Parmesan after all…&nbsp;&nbsp;

The Samuel Pepys

I managed to talk to a variety of people from different sectors and from all over the UK. I think this may have been the busiest SLA event I have attended so far, with the usual showing of friendly faces offering interesting conversation, a wealth of new knowledge and a host of good stories. We talked a lot about the upcoming&nbsp;conference in Cambridge in September, (the first to be held by the European Chapter!), and it sounds like an event not to be missed!

The evening in full swingNiamh Tumelty updates an attentive audience us on the upcoming SLA Europe Conference

With plenty of good company and no shortage of refreshments, the summer drinks are an ideal opportunity to network and exchange knowledge – and with people as agreeable as the members of SLA, it proved an extremely enjoyable evening as well. Vďaka, as ever, are due to the SLA Events Committee for putting on such a productive and entertaining evening and&nbsp;CB Resourcing for generously sponsoring it.

SLA Europe is pleased to announce its two keynote speakers for the 2019 konferencia, taking place in September at Newnham College, Cambridge.

Cerys Hearsey, Director of Post*Shift, will open this year’s conference with an engaging and thought provoking look at how organisations can effectively teach and guide their leadership to better manage and understand digital fluency, rather than simply relying on traditional c-suite roles to fill the gap.&nbsp;

Simon Chaplin, Director of Culture & Society for the Wellcome Trust will close out the conference discussions with an insightful exploration of how best to truly prepare your organisation for tomorrow. Simon will help attendees to better understand a continuous thread of past, present and future to ensure that innovation is built up from tangible experiences.&nbsp;

]]>9539SLA Europe conference awardshttp://www.sla-europe.org/2019/07/13/sla-europe-conference-awards/?lang=sk
So., 13 Jul 2019 08:30:12 +0000http://www.sla-europe.org/?p=9534-skSLA Europe is delighted to offer
two awards to Chapter members to attend the first ever SLA Europe conference,
to be held in Cambridge on 5-6 September 2019. The conference promises to be an
exciting event, and there will be something for all information professionals,
whether you wish to learn about current developments and good practice, make
professional contacts across Europe or network with colleagues from other
organisations. The conference programme can be found at http://www.sla-europe.org/sla-europe-conference/conference-programme/.

The awards will cover the full
registration, one night’s accommodation at the conference venue and transport
costs up to a maximum of £250. Applicants must be members of SLA Europe at the
time of application.

The first award is for current or
recently qualified students and/or early career professionals (within 5 years
of qualification).

The second award is for
mid-career professionals who have been members of SLA Europe for between 5 a
10 years.

Please apply, stating your SLA membership number and the award you are applying for, by sending a statement of no more than 500 slová,, described why you would like to attend the conference and how you would apply or share your takeaways from the conference, to awards@sla-europe.org. Uzávierka prihlášok je 23:59 BST on Thursday 8 August 2019.

]]>9534Event Review: Blockchain. What is it and what can it do for you? Wednesday 26th June.http://www.sla-europe.org/2019/07/10/event-review-blockchain-what-is-it-and-what-can-it-do-for-you-wednesday-26th-june/?lang=sk
Spojovať sa, 10 Jul 2019 18:17:54 +0000http://www.sla-europe.org/?p=9514-skThank you to Fraser Walker for this review. Fraser is a Knowledge and Information Officer – Tax at Slaughter and May

Presentations were delivered by Dr Aeron Buchanan of the Web3 Foundation, Sally Connor of EY and Simon Drane of Earlsferry Advisory. Each examined the capabilities and risks associated with blockchain technology. Attendees comprised information professionals and legal staff, all of whom had a diverse range of interest and knowledge in blockchain technology.

Dr Aeron Buchanan and Simon Drane highlighted how decentralised consensus platforms can take the role of trusted intermediary as part of the contractual web. Blockchain boosts transparency, allows decentralization, immutability and it can act as an automated intermediary in financial transactions.&nbsp; For example, automatic payment for late delivery, flight delays, warranty registrations and signing for goods are advantageous functions.

Dr Aeron Buchanan Web3 Foundation speaking

The analyst from EY, Sally Connor, focused on the risks associated with blockchain technology. Questions were raised surrounding the legal ownership of data in a blockchain, control of a blockchain and whether a blockchain could meet regulatory compliance. Tiež, who is responsible for making sure that the data going into the blockchain is correct, reliable and accurate? If we are unable to modify or remove data, does this create a potential risk for multiple sectors? If the data entered into a blockchain is incorrect or inaccurate, what is the potential impact?

Sally Connor EY speaking

Simon Drane also explored the potential of blockchain to streamline daily tasks and processes, which could enable the workforce to focus on high level tasks. This raised interesting questions surrounding the future of the workforce, the skills required and how we can adapt to blockchain technology.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Simon Drane, Earlsferry Advisory, speaking

Nakoniec, there is significant potential for blockchain to streamline processes and improve efficiency. Však, from the perspective of an information professional, there are questions surrounding confidentiality, the volume of data, the accuracy of data and immutability. Assurances are required over controls and the impact of blockchain on the current and future workforce. The impact of blockchain could be considerable and discussion surrounding adaptation, integration and the future of this technology should involve the information professional.

SLA Europe members may access a webinar of the evening through the Europe Community on&nbsp;Connect.

Our thanks to&nbsp;Slaughter and May for sponsoring and hosting, to our three great speakers and to the SLA Europe Events Committee for organising this stimulating evening.

SLA Europe we’re really delighted to be partnering with the ILI
(Internet Librarian International Conference) znova, and this year to be
able to promote the co-located Taxonomy Boot Camp London too.

SLA Europe members receive
a 25% zľava for both conferences just use discount code SLA25

For over 20 years ILI has continued to uphold its excellent
record of speakers on topics relevant to librarianship, information and
knowledge management.

This year has a fantastic line up of speakers starting off with
Yvonne Campfens keynote: Create, innovate and collaborate: learning from
start-ups.

There are a wide range of other sessions with international
speakers looking at across key issues for online librarians across themes
including UX, innovations in search, AI in libraries and automation.

SLA Europe will have a stand at ILI (our colleagues at SLA’s
Taxonomy Division will be also be exhibiting at TBCL) so do come and visit us.

We’d also like to invite you to join us for a joint event between ISKO, SLA Europe and SLA Taxonomy Division on October 15th) pri The Hand & Flower Pub.

Mingle over drinks and share your thoughts with fellow
information professionals drawn from across the globe. This lovely London pub
is conveniently situated just opposite the conference venue.&nbsp; The evening is jointly hosted by SLA Europe,
SLA Taxonomy Division and ISKO, the International Society for Knowledge
Organization.